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On Tuesday, February 21st the NanoLeaves Team was a guest on a scientific news program on the National TV channel RaiTre. The name of the program is TG Leonardo. The interview explains the potentialities of our research on lignin and its perspective application in organic electronics. Available at this link

During the month of July the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry in Pisa hosts Dr. Mihai Irimia-Vladu from Johannes Kepler University of Linz as a visiting fellow. We are happy to welcome Mihai and share with him inspiring ideas and research! In this picture, all our group is with Dr. Irimia-Vladu and Dr. JeannetteContinue reading “Visiting professor at NanoLeaves laboratory”

From June 29th to July 1st our Department hosted the international conference Chemistry For the Future 2022. Chemistry for the Future (CFF) is a yearly international conference on the frontiers of Chemical Research. It is organized by the Doctoral School in Chemistry and Materials Science (DSCM) and the International Office of the Dipartimento di Chimica e ChimicaContinue reading “Our team’ contribution to CFF2022”

Last May 5th Alessandra Operamolla, from the NanoLeaves Group, gave a lecture to high school students entitled “Nanotechnology from an ageless material: paper”. The lecture is available on the YouTube channel of the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry (DCCI) since it is part of the cycle DCCI Talks. At this link, you will findContinue reading “Alessandra’s contribution to DCCI Talks”

A new work from the NanoLeaves Lab in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, from ENEA – Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development and from the University of Rome La Sapienza, focuses on the use of sustainable CNCs in paper conservation. The proposed approach is benignContinue reading “Cellulose nanocrystals as consolidant of paper artefacts. A new concept of conservation of Cultural Heritage”

During these first months of 2021 I have published two papers concerning my previous research activities started at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. Among my specializations, I am expert in the synthesis and characterization of conjugated materials based on arylenethienylene structures. The first of these studies describes the preparation and characterization of diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)Continue reading “New papers published on functionalized thiophene – arylene based organic semiconductors”

The reductive amination reaction is an interesting tool to achieve one terminus functionalization of cellulose nanocrystals. Since at NanoLeaves laboratory we are interested in novel applications of CNCs, we have used pyrene luminescence to understand if the new functionality introduced on CNCs may interact preferentially with some metal cations. In our work we compare theContinue reading “New work from the NanoLeaves lab: pyrene-modified nanocrystals”

Dr. Mariacecilia Pasini, Prof. Varun Vhora and Prof. Alessandra Operamolla are the Guest Editors of the special Issue entitled “Sustainable Materials and Processes for Organic Electronics” proposed for the journal Sustainability (Publisher MDPI) with deadline October 21st 2021. The special issue will put chief attention to sustainable materials, processes, energy production and devices linked toContinue reading “Call for papers: “Sustainable Materials and Processes for Organic Electronics” – Sustainability”

A new paper, released in 2021, collects our results on the electrochemical and physico-chemical investigation performed on Langmuir-Shaefer co-deposited films of sulfated cellulose nanocrystals and fulleropyrrolidines (FP). The work is done in collaboration between the University of Pisa, the University of Salento and the University of Trieste, and extends the results and the comprehension onContinue reading “Our new article published on Polymers – MDPI investigates the electrochemical performance of fullerene – CNC hybrid films”

Last November 21st 2020, I was invited by the Alumni group of Prof. Sabu Thomas from Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU), Kottayam, Kerala, India to participate in a global party to celebrate the brilliant career of Prof. Thomas and his 60th anniversary. Prof. Sabu Thomas is presently Vice Cancellor of the Mahatma Gandhi University in IndiaContinue reading “Felicitations to Prof. Sabu Thomas for his birth anniversary”